This study evaluates a temporary research-based intervention of universal ante-natal screening for sickle cell/thalassaemia in two areas of England of intermediate (1.29 per 10,000) and low (0.18 per 10,0000) expected ...

At the time of writing that the individual has never been more important. In politics, education, the workplace, health and social care, leisure and almost every other sphere of public and private life the individual is ...

This full updated edition of a best selling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the ...

Article explores the policy role of Health consumer and patients' organisations. Based on research findings fro two surveys, the article examines the activities, resources and contacts of HCPOs. It also assess their impact ...